…………….For my birthday Angela and Chantal sent me this firepit!………..Lou and I set it up Sunday morning, [more Lou than me….I watched] LOL………Now we just have to wait for the evenings to get cool enough, but there has been a sudden cool down here in CT…….I think it’s going to be sooner rather than later. Hopefully, when the girls come and pay me a visit we can sit around the fire, looking at the sea, sipping some very cold Rose!
…………………..Summer is the only time I will make one of my favorite lunches…………..THE TOMATO SANDWICH……….You MUST HAVE good tomatoes and good bread. I get my tomatoes from the Farmer’s Markets around the different towns. They are the only ones that taste the way tomatoes should. The grocery store tomatoes are never the same……The bread is very important! The slices have to be large and without HOLES!…..So many loafs of bread look good, but when you open them, and take out the slices they have huge holes! I’m not paying for holes!…..I usually get Portuguese Bread. The slices are just right, and no holes….I toast the bread, and then SLATHER it with mayonnaise…..lots of mayonnaise!…Place my tomatoes on top…..and add salt and pepper to taste……Voila your sandwich is ready to eat…..I like to have mine with a glass of ice cold lemonade!
…………………….Jac started her career in PARIS!….When she joined the Wilhelmina Agency at the age of 16 she was immediately sent to Paris……Jac was an incredibly smart young woman, and at 16 graduated high school early…..She always told me she really didn’t fit in. She was so much taller than all of the other girls at 5’10 1/2″, and taller than many of the boys…..She had few friends, and wasn’t comfortable with people her age…….So…when she joined the agency “Willy” thought she would be perfect in Europe…..She went with her mother until she was 18, and by then she knew how to handle herself, and how to get around……She traveled constantly…..She learned quickly that the modeling business was very competitive, and knew models, especially American models, were pretty much shunned…..It was very difficult to make friends so Jac spent most of her free time walking around the cities she was in by herself, and going to museums. It was lonely and she couldn’t wait tom get home……The photos were from a shoot she was booked for in Paris. I don’t recall the magazine or the photographer, but she was very excited especially since she was the central figure in the photo. This was one of the photographer’s trial shots to check composition and lighting
……………The year was 1982 or 83. I had hired Author Elgort. one of America’s premiere photographers, to shoot the fall campaign…….Arthur loved to come to the show room before the shoot to discuss the model and the clothes being chosen. Arthur certainly had his favorite models and always had his pulse on whoever was new and hot…….On this day he asked if Jac could put on the outfits with all of the accessories so he could take some candid pictures. He liked to refer to them so he could come up with ideas and a vision for what he wanted to accomplish. I realized early on working with Arthur you gave him cart blanch to do what he wanted. This way you always got the best of Arthur…….So Jac, under Arthur’s directed, posed for him in our showroom……For one photo he asked me to stand behind Jac with my arms folded, and he snapped away…….I LOVED these black and white photos and always felt they could have been the National Ads…….I actually liked them better than the final ads, but everyone else loved the new color photos Author took so we went with them……It turned out to be a beautiful campaign. I worked with Arthur many times, and it was always a great experience.
……………….This set of THREE BIKINI BRACELETS, J412951, are the perfect bracelets to wear on their own or to mix with other things….Since the day I received them I put them on in the STERLING SILVER and the 18 KARAT GOLD PLATE, and haven’t taken them off. I wear them with my GOLD and STAINLESS STEEL WATCH….They are getting very LIMITED….The GOLD is completely sold out….The ROSE GOLD is avail in size 7 1/4 only and the STERLING SILVER is still avail. in all three sizes….6 3/4….7 1/4…..and 8…but there are few left. These will not be reordered so don’t let them escape you!….You won’t be sorry!!